Originally posted by zerosecta
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The point that zero makes here is clear, anyone can do measurements on their suspension and understand the limits of the geometry.
CalOffroad are selling a 3" lift kit which will not be road legal in Australia, and they provide a woefully inadequate open length strut of 555mm, which leaves your Prado with an extremely low 20-30mm of droop.
You cannot drive a Prado around with 3" lift and 20mm of droop, the struts will get repetitively topped-out and have a short life. Add to that likely mechanical failure the fact that driving under any conditions with 20-30mm of droop is an accident waiting to happen. I have personally driven a 120 Prado with 30mm of droop, and the front end lifted off at 80km/h on a sweeping bend, it is dangerous.
You need to run a long travel strut with a 3" lift, and for the 150 series, 575mm is the open length.
For those who want to argue further about the mechanical dangers of running long travel struts, Andrew and Zero have both pointed out the obvious, that it is a low risk scenario, dependent on how you drive your Prado. If you still wanna argue about it, then talk to ####, as he has done the research on how the front diff moves with shock loading.
I think after this discussion, it's important to get some droop measurements from anyone running the CalOffroad 3" lift kit in their Prado.
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Mark
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